On skate shoes and possible shenanigans
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tijay makes a lengthy post about a kid coming into the store wearing heelies. Kid, while skating, apparently trips over the steps on a nearby escalator and bangs his head.

Result? 911, kid half-dead, in coma (prolly and hopefully died on the way to the hospital, he bleed all over the escalator making 4 people clean up after him. Bitch. His mom is crying and yelling at everyone, escalator gets stopped. People complaint about elevators that are slow and that we need to fix our escalators.

Then we have team meeting, and at least three people confess that they told him and his mom to stop skating. Making our liability 0. At least now, we have banned these goddamn shoes.

That incident just made my day. I will remember it on the bright side for the rest of my life.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're off. 324 comments and counting.

Edit: The wank, it hits stupid_free--many thanks to

hangingfire for the link.

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hallidae
2007-05-14 06:42 pm UTC (link)

I mostly curled my lip at those, but I have to quibble a little on the first comment you linked, because they do have a point, although the "they have it coming to them" at the end spoils it. Maybe it's just because they don't want to do it in public or something, but it really does seem that there's a much lower number of parents who'll discipline their kid for ignoring safety warnings, verbal or otherwise.

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	semtex 2007-05-14 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	They had a point which they totally negate with the "they have it coming to them" bit. headdesk (Reply to this)(Parent)

	frequentmouse 2007-05-14 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, and people have been saying that since late 1953, that I can remember particularly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wrongly_amused 2007-05-14 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	Haha, that reminds me of that Baz Luhrmann song - Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rimrunner 2007-05-15 02:23 am UTC (link)
	Which in turn reminds me of that Roger Allen quote, to wit: "In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." (Reply to this)(Parent)

hallidae
2007-05-15 12:57 am UTC (link)

To pull a personal anecdote because I'm genuinely curious as to whether this is an equally old issue or a new phenomenon, in 1953 did you have to worry about Mommy threatening to sue your store for hiring a "child molester" because you had to reach over the counter and grab the sash of her toddler's dress to keep the kid from taking a header over the cart handlebar into a rack of batteries while she wasn't paying attention?

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frequentmouse
2007-05-15 01:25 am UTC (link)

I've been known to walk up to parents letting their kids stand up on the seat of grocery carts and tell them "You know, I don't know about you, but the sound of a baby's head hitting concrete makes me hurl."

In the fifties, I dunno- I lived in the kind of small town where the kids slept in the car while Mommy shopped. The specific manifestations may change, but there are always parents who believe their kids shit doesn't stink, and that nothing will ever hurt them.

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	hallidae 2007-05-15 01:42 am UTC (link)
	The specific manifestations may change, but there are always parents who believe their kids shit doesn't stink, and that nothing will ever hurt them. Ah, I see what you mean now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

semirecluse
2007-05-15 01:29 am UTC (link)

Ehh, I have an automatic skeptical reaction to that sort of Culture In Decline rhetoric - "Oh my stars, the world is going all to hell these days, the new generation is a pack of lawless guttersnipes, things were so much more civilized in my day" etc. Mostly because people have been saying it since the beginning of recorded time, and because it's frequently inflected with a sort of social conservatism that I don't care for.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint.

- Hesiod, c. 700 B.C.

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	jat_sapphire 2007-05-15 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	And I bet Hesiod was not 22 years old when he said it. head reeling at the "kids these days!" comments FROM almost-kids (Reply to this)(Parent)

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